Manish

Education

• B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) – NLSIU (National Law School of India University), Bengaluru
• LL.M. – University of Melbourne

Profile

Manish comes with nine years of work experience in academic, policy and activist spaces. He was previously a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi where his work centred around the role of law in mediating state-citizen relationships in urban governance, focusing specifically on urban poverty, informal labour, and access to housing. He has also worked as a researcher at the National Law University, Delhi, on projects ranging from the criminal justice system to hate speech and media law; and with the Centre for Social Justice, Ahmedabad where he led research and capacity building in interventions aimed at securing access to justice for marginalised communities.

Manish has previously taught courses on law and development among others, at TERI University, New Delhi and Nirma University, Ahmedabad. His teaching method is influenced by Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and oriented towards education as a tool for liberation. His current research interests lie in constitutionalism as an ideology and its role in limiting state power during periods of democratic decay. He is particularly interested in decolonisation and other perspectives from the Global South.